IE for the mac is in itself awful. It is sometimes so difficult to get sites the same as they look in other browsers that most people/developers don’t take the effort in resolving the differences. My suggestion: just forget it. Use your time for something else. 🙂
I’d agree with that, generally only sadists try to get everything looking right in IE for the Mac. Also, getting IE Mac to play nicely quite often means breaking standards.
I’d rather have a valid page that doesn’t look right in IE Mac than an invalid page that does.
Also, I think the amount of people using this browser is so tiny now that it’s not worth the effort, and those that do use it realise how badly it renders because it does it uniformly across the web.
Okay, you guys have conviced me. The only real reason I was holding on to that is because I know IE is the most popular browser out there. But just like someone would have to be a sadist to render a page in Mac IE, you’d also have to be a sadist to keep using IE to surf the web on your Mac.
Now I’m happy. Thanks guys!
On the Mac, IE is most definitely not the most popular browser out there. IE for Mac and IE for Windows are completely different creatures, which share only a name and an icon, and nothing else. Dump IE for Mac and support Mac browser that are actually updated, like Safari and Firefox.
IE is the bane of my life; one of the companies which provides database software to us insists that we use IE for Mac – foolish, uninformed and completely ridiculous to not support something else, but our users comply. That’s fine for that particular database app, but I’m actively investigating ways to prevent IE for Mac from exiting our intranet, to force users to use something newer.
